Emily Patrick
Emily Patrick is a figurative artist and alumna of New Hall (Architecture, 1979–82) known for her paintings that incorporate poetic reflections on the natural world. Memories from her childhood spent on a poultry farm in rural Kent often inform her work. Aware of the harsh reality of country life, her portraits, domestic scenes, landscapes, and still-lifes are unromantic correctives, but with an appreciation of nature throughout. She enjoyed early success with a series of popular solo exhibitions at Agnew’s Gallery in London, followed by a commission in 1987 to paint the Princess of Wales, Diana, for the Royal Hampshire Regiment. In 1988 she exhibited as a finalist in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, and in 1989 she won the Carroll Foundation Award of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters for the most promising portrait by an artist under thirty-years old. Patrick currently lives and works in Greenwich, South London.
Selected Collections
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Winchester College
Further Reading
Emily Patrick: a collection of paintings 2015-2017. London: Water Curtain Cave, 2017. Exhibition catalogue.
Emily Patrick: recent paintings: 11th November – 11th December 1992, Agnews. London: Agnew and Sons Ltd, 1992. Exhibition catalogue.
Emily Patrick: Recent Paintings 1997-1999. London: Gallery 27, 2000. Exhibition catalogue.
